Sentences with phrase «support flat taxes»

We could be on the cusp of conservative reforms that would rival all of the domestic policy achievements of the 1980s and 1990s if some conservatives would stop trying to relive the Kemp - Roth tax cuts or else engaging in hopeless struggles to get the public to support flat taxes or national sales taxes that would either raise taxes on the middle - class or collapse revenues or both.

Pistone opposes the Affordable Care Act and supports a flat tax, tougher border enforcement and greater domestic energy production.

Not exact matches

Entrepreneur and media magnate Steve Forbes expressed his support for Ted Cruz, the flat tax, and the ultra-conservative bromide of fixing the economy by returning to the gold standard:

What's more, while 95 percent of small businesses are organized as pass - throughs (based on 2014 Treasury Dept. data) rather than traditional C - corporations, the CNBC / SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey found the most support (68 percent) for the tax plan among C - corps — which would receive the flat corporate tax - rate reduction to 20 percent.

I am firmly middle class, and I am fine with a flat tax (and indeed support it for its simplicity — why does the government care if I pay for my dental expenses through my employer or more directly?)

Some fraction of conservative activists probably favor this outcome, but mass support for flat taxes is likely a result of people initially misunderstanding the distributional impact.

I supported Steve Forbes for president in 2000 (even though I was skeptical about his flat tax), but the real crazy was my support for Texas Senator Phil Gramm's short - lived and obscure 1996 candidacy.

You still have the problem that funding higher education through flat rate contributions rather than proportionately through the tax system undermines some of our wider goals around public support for universal provision of public services.

The speech touched on plans for a flat tax as well as promises to stand strongly with Israel and use «overwhelming force» against the Islamic State, but Cruz also emphasized his support for gun rights and religious freedom.

Mr Osborne announced an increase in the threshold before workers start paying income tax to # 8,105, financial support for first - time home buyers, a two per cent cut to corporation tax this year, a tax on private jets, a clampdown on non-doms, the introduction of # 140 flat - rate state pension, a review into a merger of national insurance and income tax and a fair fuel stabiliser, including a 1p cut on fuel duty.

Liberal advocates also support the idea, but say it should be paid for not by holding spending near flat, but by increasing taxes on upper - income earners.

LaSpino said he supports either a fair or flat tax, opposes fracking for oil and natural gas, and opposes abortion and euthanasia.

For example, Meng supports a progressive tax system, including a millionaire's tax, while Halloran is in favor of a three - tier flat tax system and eliminating loopholes.

1973 — A complete tax base equalization program is enacted that provides a much higher appropriation of equalization aid to relieve local property taxes; discontinues general flat aids; institutes a power equalizing program providing for «negative aids»; and separates the shared cost into primary and secondary levels with a two - level system of state aid in which school costs which exceed the statutory ceiling of aidable costs are supported at a lower level of state aid to serve as a disincentive to high levels of spending.

Even Exxon supports a flat carbon tax now.

«It's clear that much of the sales pitch for a carbon tax that has been aimed at Republicans has fallen flat,» says Joseph Majkut, a geoscientist and the director of climate policy at the Niskanen Center, a libertarian think tank that supports a carbon tax.

Although the AP poll shows little support for the flat tax, a majority of those who responded did support lower or no taxes on investment income.

Fifty percent of Americans who responded to a recent Associated Press poll said they oppose a flat tax that would «take away all or most deductions, including the home mortgage interest deduction,» lending support to NAR's position that the benefits of a pure flat tax aren't worth the loss of the mortgage interest deduction.